With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.

Yaya Bey, Do It Afraid
In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
FLOOD Staff

The Norwegian songwriter performs two tracks in Silver Lake amid her tour in support of her recent LP Crazy Life, out now.

Gary Numan, Love and Rockets, Boy Harsher, Billy Idol, and more from the event’s second year in Pasadena.

Ahead of their performance at Lightning in a Bottle this weekend, Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter take over the station with a handful of their favorite tunes.

Ethel Cain, Run the Jewels, Pavement, Pixies, and more from the fourth annual fest in Salt Lake City.

Turnstile at Ottobar in Baltimore, MD. May 15, 2023. Photo by Skylar Watkins.
The Baltimore hardcore band took a break from their North American arena tour with blink-182 for a raucous, intimate hometown set benefitting Baltimore Youth Arts.

Behind the scenes with several of the Pasadena festival’s iconic artists.

Derek VanScoten’s latest album Bloom Bap landed back in March via Nettwerk.

The Bay Area luminaries are set to help the brand celebrate 150 years at a free event from May 19 to May 27.

Peaches at Just Like Heaven in Pasadena, CA. May 13, 2023. Photo by Wilson Lee
M83, The Hives, Fever Ray, The Walkmen, and much more from Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA.

Ahead of her new LP Lucky for You, Alicia Bognanno is spinning everything from PJ Harvey to Soccer Mommy.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, The Walkmen, and more will be playing at the Pasadena fest.

Watch Blu and her brother Rex take us on a ride around their new hometown of Los Angeles in this clip presented by Toyota.

The songwriter performs his new single as well as Joni’s “Night Ride Home” in the Norwegian capital’s botanical garden.

The duo are coming off last week’s release of their thirteenth studio album, So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously.

The recently reassembled band performed for the first time in Philadelphia since their legendary spaghetti dinner show in 2013.

The Canadian songwriter performs two tracks from her recent album Down Rounder in front of Willie Nelson’s old tour bus.

Cuco
Shots of Toro Y Moi, The Black Angels, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Crumb, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and plenty more from the return of the annual event.

After helping the station celebrate its second birthday last month with an intimate set in Venice, the LA-based songwriter is taking over FLOOD FM all week.

On the heels of their new LP Rides On, the country-tinged garage rockers take us through an ideal day in both rural and urban New York.

The LA-based electro-pop duo takes us behind the scenes of their experience at weekend two of the Indio, California festival.